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Stoudemire will do well when he returns. This is the first year where he took the initiative to develop his game. He trained with one of the best Centres this league has ever seen and if he's picked up even a fraction of what Olajuwon taught him, then he will have added at least one dimension to his game. Recognise the effort he's made and wait for him to step on the court before forming an opinion on a player who carried this team to the playoffs for the first time in 6 years, and gave us our first winning season since 2000.

Still do the Marcus Camby sign and trade deal, instead of signing Kidd and Prigioni bring over Bo McCalebb as our back up Point Guard, sign Mickael Pietrus instead of James White, we also keep Jared Jeffries instead of trading him for Felton and KT. Trade up in the draft and take Jae Crowder.

Billups' amnesty

One of the decisions our front office made that I did not understand was exercising our option to sign on to Billups final option year at $14.5M rather than declining the options and paying the contract buy-out for about $3.7M. The latter number would have counted against our cap and we would not have had Billups who was later amnestied at the full $14.5M. We needed some room to sign Chandler, but there should have been enough with the almost $11M that would have been dropped if we did not exercise our option on his last year.

We had to know that Amar'e's health might well be a problem going forward.

SHAQ and C Webb seem to think that STAT's absence will be detrimental to the team. Personally I think his absence will help the team form a defensive identity, because forming one with him would have been nigh on impossible.

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Carving out the defensive mentality and then forcing him to adjust once it's in place doesn't sound so bad to me.

That's exactly the same feeling many people had about Melo last year... I still have some believe in SHAT, but IMO it's a matter of time before he'll end up with our second unit. I highly dount he's able to pick up his D like Melo did...

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Originally Posted by Dzwonsson

That's exactly the same feeling many people had about Melo last year... I still have some believe in SHAT, but IMO it's a matter of time before he'll end up with our second unit. I highly dount he's able to pick up his D like Melo did...

This.

Stat's lack of effort on defense isn't my concern.
It seems like Stat is so new to the concept of defense, we can blame it on D'Antoni for raising Stat in Phoenix, and D'Antoni doesn't preach defense (which is weird since he was a defensive player in Italy)

Stat is kinda like a lost cause, can we expect a transformation?

We Sheed, Thomas, Novak, and Anthony play so well at the forward position, and Camby hasn't even returned yet...the need for Stat seem to have lost complete value.

It'll be harder to trade him now, unless a team is desperate (Bobcats?)

That's exactly the same feeling many people had about Melo last year... I still have some believe in SHAT, but IMO it's a matter of time before he'll end up with our second unit. I highly dount he's able to pick up his D like Melo did...

Thats how I feel except I don't think really think he'll come off the bench he'll start and play most of his minutes off the bench.

I was looking forward to him and Melo playing together but thats gonna be post poned he needs to start taking some extreme measures to limit his injuries as much as possible.

I still think he'll be good when he comes back offensively after a few games defensively I don't expect anything more than a few blocks a game.

And also he is not getting traded because the Knicks are not gonna trade him for a gang of role players and nobody is gonna give up a star for him with his health. Knicks fans should just hope he can stay healthy for the rest of the year when he gets back.